[Katsuki raises a brow, skeptical, but also curious. That...does beg the question, can Vaeros actually depower someone's physical strength? It would make perfect sense, Katsuki himself is physically stronger than an average non-shounen anime person, but it's sort of difficult to take away someone's muscles...]

Give it a week - two, tops. You either touched something in the garden, or you got extremely fucking lucky and found a loophole to the cockgobbler's bullshit. Regardless, you can get what you lost back, but you gotta pay for it. Literally. How much you learn about this place, Meathead?